Several Affected as Turbulence Strikes A Delta Airlines Aircraft Arriving in Sydney, Australia

Multiple passengers and crew have been injured following a Delta Airlines aircraft from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia experienced significant turbulence this past Friday.

Delta Flight 41 "experienced a brief period of turbulence" as it touched down at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told. Several cabin crew members sustained injuries.

Local paramedics stated they treated a total of five people, and took three of them to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that such as pain in the back and headaches. The patients' ages ranged from their 30s up to the 70s.

This marks the latest incident of aircraft being hit by atmospheric disturbance, with experts indicating that global warming is a major factor.

There were 245 people and fifteen staff members on the wide-body jet, the Delta spokesperson noted, stating that the plane arrived "safely" at the airport at shortly before 7 a.m. on the day in question.

Paramedics said they received a call just a mere three minutes prior to the plane touched down, and ambulances were standing by on the runway.

Why in-flight bumpiness is getting increasingly prevalent - and more severe.

In the previous year, two dozen individuals sustained injuries when a Delta Airlines flight, on a route from Salt Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, hit "severe" turbulence just two hours into the transoceanic journey, and had to make an precautionary landing.

Recently, those on board on a Singapore Airlines flight experienced a frightening five seconds period of extreme instability. An individual lost their life and numerous people sustained injuries, as those without seatbelts rose out of their seats and fell back down.

Turbulence is fairly routine on aircraft journeys, and while cases of strong or severe turbulence are reportedly becoming more frequent, they are statistically infrequent.

Data suggests that there are approximately 5,000 incidents of significant in-flight disturbance every year, out of a total of in excess of 35 million aircraft departures that currently occur worldwide.

Intense turbulence is categorized as when the vertical motions of a aircraft going through disturbed air generate in excess of 1.5 times the force of gravity on your body - a strong enough force to propel you from your seat if you were not fastened by a safety belt.

As a changing climate alters the conditions in the sky, experts warn that commercial aviation could become bumpier: temperature changes and altered air currents in the jet stream level are projected to increase the occurrence and strength of severe turbulence.